Lance J. Weislak is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan, a student at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and an adjunct scholar with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

From Lance J. Weislak

Tuition hikes could actually help those students who truly need help — by enabling the school to offer greater outright gift aid and tuition reductions to students from low-income families, as is often the practice at private universities. … more

Our state and its city governments would do better to focus on their more important functions (schools, roads and public safety, for example), which are often carried out in ways that are anything but cool. … more